Example sentences of "[vb mod] live [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consequently , the court can not use what used to be called injunctions , either mandatory or prohibitory , to achieve that the child should live in a particular place . |
| 2 | ‘ You must live in a funny world , ’ he said . |
| 3 | If we sh wanted other conditions we 'd live on a different planet or we would have developed on a different plant . |
| 4 | ‘ You 'd live in a small cottage in Wales ? ’ she gasped . |
| 5 | I did not like the accusation of naïvety , preferring to believe that I was an honest man who found it hard to imagine how other people could live with a guilty conscience . |
| 6 | Other plant ecologists saw physiology as their starting point , because it was the interaction between the plant as a living organism and its environment that determined whether or not a particular species could live in a certain area . |
| 7 | The idea that the chronically ill could live in a domestic setting with little professional nursing input was new . |
| 8 | Humboldt showed them how to tabulate data to reveal the effect of the environment in determining what kind of species could live in a particular area . |
| 9 | You may live in a modern house where the style of bare floorboards is acceptable , but nothing beats good carpeting as insulation . |
| 10 | Thus a modern Inuit village family may live in a small settlement of insulated timber housing , spend part of their time working for wages in government or private company employ , hunt caribou or seals for meat , and tend traplines for extra money to buy consumer goods from the store or mail-order catalogue . |
| 11 | We may live in a free country but you do n't feel free . |
| 12 | Sometimes those persons may live in a different country ( as in the case of Nepal and India , for example ) , which may well create both problems and opportunities for the funding and joint cooperation of soil conservation ventures . |
| 13 | She will work with the Allied Screening Commission which is part of M.I.9 , and she will live with a charming couple , Signor and Signora Banterle . |
| 14 | This means that if one tries to take an ‘ essential section ’ there is no essence revealed which is the present of each level ; indeed the break valid for one history would not necessarily correspond to that valid for any other which will live in a different time and in a different rhythm . |
| 15 | Eight hundred to a thousand people will live in a dense area and are subject to the vagaries of government and landlords . |
| 16 | The longer the lapse of time the less your chance of success , but ferrets can live for a considerable period within a burrow system — as much as three weeks . |
| 17 | Marc Wadsworth , the black sections national organiser , said : ‘ We can live with a long struggle . |
| 18 | The Woolwich and Cheltenham & Gloucester societies believe they can live with a 1-point rise or less . |
| 19 | Diplomats can live on a brilliant surface of respectability and still risk sliding into the mire of distrust hidden below . |
| 20 | But once he 's grown enough spines it 's hoped he can live in a walled garden — a real case of wash and go . |
| 21 | It means I can live in a good part of town in my own apartment . |
| 22 | But you 'll forget me , find somebody who can live in a romantic dream-world , somebody who can fool themselves that love is real . |
| 23 | Britain has always taken a stand against bullies and tyrants to ensure that we can live in a safe world and I pray that our resolution to do this will remain undiminished . |